[jira] [Created] (LUCENE-4943) remove 'Changes to Backwards Compatibility Policy' from lucene/CHANGES.txt

["Robert Muir (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Robert Muir created LUCENE-4943:
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             Summary: remove 'Changes to Backwards Compatibility Policy' from lucene/CHANGES.txt
                 Key: LUCENE-4943
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-4943
             Project: Lucene - Core
          Issue Type: Bug
            Reporter: Robert Muir
             Fix For: 4.4


CHANGES.txt is useful to summarize the changes in a release. 

However its expected that a lot of changes will impact the APIs, this currently hurts the quality of CHANGES.txt because it leads to a significant portion of changes (whether they be bugs, features, whatever) being grouped under this one title.

It also leads to descriptions of CHANGES being unnecessarily verbose.

I think it makes CHANGES confusing and overwhelming, and it would be better to have a simpler 'upgrading' section with practical information on what you actually need to do (like Solr's CHANGES.txt).

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